Jenni Watson

“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time.

- Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell

“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.”
― Mark Rippetoe

“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson